“And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him.”
When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue him from their hands. Let's not take his life, he said. The intervention of Reuben — the firstborn, the one who violated Bilhah — is the redemptive impulse in the most unlikely place. The application: the moral impulse toward rescue can appear in the most compromised person. Reuben's history does not prevent him from acting to save Joseph.
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